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A kaleidoscopic social history of the year that shaped the modern world

This book delves into the significant bond between a renowned U.S. president and Great Britain, highlighting the historical context and personal dynamics that shaped their relationship. It offers insights into diplomatic strategies, cultural exchanges, and the impact of this alliance on international relations during a pivotal era. Through detailed analysis, the narrative reveals how this connection influenced both nations and contributed to shaping modern geopolitics.

This book tells the story of the extraordinary link between actual murder and the greatest detective story writer of all time.

The first dual biography of Surrey and England 'spin twins' Jim Laker and Tony Lock, who helped their county and Test teams to an unparalleled run of dominance in the 1950s. Besides their peerless achievements on the field, the two men had little in common, although both courted controversy. This is the full story of the pair's uneasy partnership.

The classic biography of the Rolling Stones - updated for their 60th anniversary

A fresh account of one of history's most notorious con artists by an acclaimed biographer

The Second World War through the eyes of the leading British cricketers of 1939.

The definitive story of the most controversial and longest-surviving band in music history In order to accurately chronicle the human drama at the center of the Rolling Stones story, the author of this book has carried out interviews with band members; close family members, including Mick's parents; and the group's fans and contemporaries. He has even examined their previously unreleased FBI files. In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy planning a career in the civil service, while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones—who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations, and playing blues guitar—and the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, and the potential was obvious.During the 1960s and '70s the Stones were polarizing figures, alternately admired and reviled for their flamboyance, creativity, and salacious lifestyles. Confidently expected never to reach 30, they now approach their seventies having been together for 50 years. Like no other book before, this history makes sense of the rich brew of clever invention and opportunism; talent, good fortune, insecurity, and self-destructiveness; and drugs, sex, and other excess that made the Stones who they are.

Touted by fans for his charisma and scorned by critics for his egomania, Sting is one of the most commercially successful and most controversial rock artists performing today. A schoolteacher from Newcastle, Sting soared to international fame and the top of the seventies rock charts with The Police, one of the most popular bands on the planet. After the band folded, he emerged as a solo start with hit singles, critically acclaimed albums, worldwide sell-out tours, and a host of Grammys. Yet Sting's career has been turbulent — an accomplished jazz bassist and vastly talented musician, he has been charged with playing punk and reggae for careerist convenience. He has been accused of single-handedly breaking up The Police at the peak of its rock band powers. In this updated edition of the first full-length biography of Sting, Christopher Sandford examines the substance behind the cliché: the creative disagreements — and physical violence — among The Police; the musical intelligence that produced such albums as Nothing Like the Sun and Ten Summoner's Tales; Sting's ecological campaigning and financial dealings; and his numerous sexual entanglements. Here is Sting, the legend, the man, the political activist, the performer who continues to fascinate the world.

Full of extraordinary revelations, Paul McCartney is a revealing tale of self-destruction, violence and epic excess. Between 1963 and 1970, Paul McCartney did the following: Sold 160 million albums. Scored 25 Number One singles. Captured the whole thing in A Hard Day’s Night . Experimented with drugs. Offended the church. Established the concept of rock-as-art with Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Persuaded millions of kids to pick up electric guitars. Single-handedly invented the Swinging Sixties. And became one of the most famous Englishmen alive. The Beatles’ bloody in-fighting, the sex, the drugs, and McCartney’s extraordinary marriages are here revealed in full. Yet while the revelations will genuinely astound, this book remains a celebratory feast for his millions of fans, capturing the glorious rush of the best songs and revealing the untold stories behind them. Paul McCartney is the definitive biography, charting not only the pop legend, but also the man and his era.